Lau Siu Kai
Prof Lau Siu Kai (simplified Chinese: 刘兆佳; traditional Chinese: 劉兆佳; pinyin: Liú Zhaòjiā, born 1947), GBS, is a sociologist from Hong Kong. He graduated from The University of Hong Kong, and taught at the Department of Sociology of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is emeritus professor of sociology, after getting a PhD degree from the University of Minnesota. During his tenure at CUHK he was also associate director of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies. He served as the head of the government's thinktank, the Central Policy Unit, for a decade from 2002.Lau was appointed delegate to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2003 and is vocal in his support for watering down democratic development in Hong Kong by, for example, restricting the scope for nomination of candidates for the election of Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR in 2017.
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| Birth date | June 07, 1947 |
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